Associate Professor of Communication

801-626-7098 (office)
jpassey@weber.edu

EDUCATION

1975    Ph.D., University of Illinois, Communication
1969    M.A., University of Washington, Communication
1967    B.A., Utah State University, Communication

COURSES TAUGHT

Weber State University
1990-1997            Performance of Children’s Literature
1990-1997            Business and Professional Speaking (Comm. 350)
1990-present         Performance Studies (Comm. 3070)
1990-present         Introduction to Public Speaking (Comm. 1020)
1990-present         Advance Public Speaking (Comm. 3120)
1990-1993            Continuing Education Short Course for UDOT (Technical Writing)
1995-present         Interpersonal/Small Group Communication (Comm. 2110)
1999-present         Senior Seminar (Comm. 4990)

Westminster College
1989-1990            Oral Communication (Comm. 105)
                           Speech (Comm. 100)

Weber State College (English Department)
1976-1989            Composition (Eng. 096)
                             Introduction to Writing (Eng. 101)
                             Vocabulary Enrichment ( Eng. 107)                             
                             Intermediate Writing (Eng. 201)
                             Introduction to Literature (Eng. 250)
                             Introduction to Fiction (Eng. 232)                             
                             Introduction to Poetry (Eng. 234)
                             Technical Writing (Eng. 210)
                             Advanced Technical Writing ( Eng. 310)
1985-1990            Continuing Education Short Course UDOT (Technical Writing)

Brigham Young University (Salt Lake Center)
1976-1978             Nonverbal Communication
                             Introduction to Humanities
                             Arts in Western Culture: Greek to Renaissance
                             Short Story
                             Technical Writing

University of Utah
1975-1976             Voice and Diction
                              Readers Theater
                              Interpretation 

University of Hawaii
1972-1975             Oral Interpretation
                             Storytelling
                         
University of Illinois
1969-1972             Oral Interpretation (Comm. 141)
                             Verbal Communication

University of Washington
1967-1969              Basic Speech Improvement (Comm. 100)

PUBLICATIONS

Passey, J.  1st Place Award for poem “Guggenheim” at annual USPS Festival April 20, 2006.

Passey, J.  “An Appetite for Art: A Conversation with Robert Pinsky” Weber Studies Vol. 22
Winter 2005,  2-13.

Passey, J.  “Kokopelle” (poem) in Panorama, November 2003.

Passey, J.  “The Invocational Poem: A Rhetorical Paradigm for Action in James Dickey’s
‘For the Last Wolverine.’” James Dickey Newsletter Spring 1997, Volume 13 Number 2 ,
pp. 8-14. (refereed editorial staff)

Passey, J. “Surplus Salvage from 1946" and “Somalia in the Breech” (poems) City Art Fall 1997.

Passey, J. “Geraniums in Winter” (poem) Utah Sings 1996, p. 342.

Passey, J. “In the Journals of Trees” (poem) Carvings in Stone, The National Library of Poetry, 1996.

Passey , J. “Autumn Returns” and “The Old Man in the Wasatch” (poems) Centennial Book
of Davis Country, Friesen Press, 1995 pp. 13 and 37.

Passey, J. “Boys and Homemade Gliders” (poem) Rough Draft, Summer 1995, p. 21

Passey, J.  Heart Earth by Ivan Doig, book review appears in Weber Studies, Fall 1994,
pp. 138-139.

Passey, J. “Utterance” (poem) Ellipsis. Spring 1993, p. 30.

Passey, J. “Motor Seduction: 1946" (poem) Ellipsis. Fall 1992, p. 32.

Passey, J. Book review of  Contemporary Literary Theory eds. G. Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow, appears in Text and Performance Quarterly, April 1991, pp. 167-169.

Passey, J. “Outreaching the Wild” (poem) Weber Studies. Spring, 1991, pp. 95-96.

Passey, J. “Springs Leaves Fall” (poem) Ellipsis.  Spring, 1991, p. 32.

PRESENTATIONS/PROFESSIONAL AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Reader for Babcock Theater programs in 2005 on the Holocaust and in 2006 on Baseball at
the University of Utah.

Served as external reviewer for manuscript for Text and Performance Quarterly May 2004.

Participated as reader in Teaching Award panel at WSCA Convention February 18, 2004.

Served as President of the Utah State Poetry Society from 2001 to 2003.  Active membership of more than 250 poets in seven chapters statewide.  Responsible for administrative functions, board meeting agenda ,conducting public events, newsletter president messages, grants writing for financial support from Utah Arts Council.

Performed in Winter Olympic Poetry reading Program presented by the USPS through a Cultural
Heritage Grant sponsored by SLOC. Arranged event held at Central Davis Branch Library February 9, 2002.

Discussion leader with The Book Group sponsored by Utah Humanities Council at the Davis North Branch Library in Clearfield and also at South Branch in Bountiful  January 3rd and 9th 2002.  Book review of novel Housekeeping by Marilynn Robinson.

Participated in Dead Poet division of 3rd Annual WSU Poetry Slam November 7, 2001–won first place with poet Theodore Roethke.

Hosted Utah Chapter of EDIS Emily Dickinson International Society Parody Poetry Contest
October 1998.  Won 1st Place and 2nd Honorable Mention.

Presenter in “Author as Author: A Performance Hour Program” November 23, 1997 at
the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago. Sponsored by Performance Studies Division.

Served as Master of Ceremony at the 2nd Annual Storytelling Festival held in Ogden September 12 and 13, 1997.

Conducted poetry workshop for the Wasatch Writers, August 12, 1996. Topic: “In Appreciation of Assonance in Poetry.”

Performed program of poetry “These Kinds of Love” at First Unitarian Church, Salt Lake City, July 9, 1995.